Phyllocladus aspleniifolius

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Family Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Phyllocladus aspleniifolius (Labill.) Hook.f.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Phyllocladus aspleniifolia Hook.f. (orthographic variant)
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius (Labill.) Hook.f. var. aspleniifolius (nomenclatural synonym)
Phyllocladus billardierei Rich. ex Mirb. (taxonomic synonym)
Phyllocladus rhomboidalis Rich. (taxonomic synonym)
Phyllocladus serratifolia Henkel & Hochst. (taxonomic synonym)
Phyllocladus serratifolius Nois. ex Henkel & Hochst. (taxonomic synonym)
Podocarpus aspleniifolia Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
Podocarpus aspleniifolius Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (10), Bloomfield_2018 (174), Brodribb_2000 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), Lawes_2014 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Prior_2022 (24), Rumman_2018 (3), Smith_1996 (175), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 431 records in 19 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (10) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kirkpatrick_2020; Prior_2022]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): pink (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 709.71 mm2 (66.1-1178.1 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Smith_1996]
leaf_length (numerical): 34.99 mm (1-80 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 12.96 mm (1-25 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 49.28 mg (34.09-95.11 mg) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 217.69 g/m2 (120.04-298.36 g/m2) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Smith_1996]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.56 g/g (0.4-0.92 g/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Smith_1996]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.67 g/g (0.09-0.95 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_shape (categorical): obtriangular (1); rhomboidal (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015]
leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 37.25 deg (5-90 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Rumman_2018; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (9) [sources: Clarke_2015; Prior_2022]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.03 mg/g (8.06-13.11 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Smith_1996]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.59 mg/g (0.47-0.89 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Smith_1996]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26 {delta}[ppth] (-26--26 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Rumman_2018]

physiology

leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_area_maximum (numerical): 13.97 umol{CO2}/m2/s (5.47-26.31 umol{CO2}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_dry_mass_maximum (numerical): 0.07 umol{CO2}/g/s (0.04-0.12 umol{CO2}/g/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_stomatal_conductance_per_area_at_Amax (numerical): 50.89 mmol{H2O}/m2/s (36.2-99.85 mmol{H2O}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.93 mg (2.88-2.99 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.55-0.55 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Brodribb_2000]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 19.62 m (5-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Smith_1996	17	175	B. Smith. “Community-level convergence and community structure of temperate Nothofagus forests”. PhD. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1996. url: http://web.nateko.lu.se/personal/benjamin.smith/thesis/thesis.html.
Bloomfield_2018	24	174	K. J. Bloomfield, L. A. Cernusak, D. Eamus, D. S. Ellsworth, I. C. Prentice, I. J. Wright, M. M. Boer, M. G. Bradford, P. Cale, J. Cleverly, J. J. G. Egerton, B. J. Evans, L. S. Hayes, M. F. Hutchinson, M. J. Liddell, C. Macfarlane, W. S. Meyer, S. M. Prober, H. F. Togashi, T. Wardlaw, L. Zhu, and O. K. Atkin. “A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: Within species, across sites and between seasons”. Functional Ecology 32.6 (2018), pp. 1492-1506. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13097.
Prior_2022	3	24	L. D. Prior, S. M. Foyster, J. M. Furlaud, G. J. Williamson, and D. M. Bowman. “Using permanent forest plots to evaluate the resilience to fire of Tasmania's tall wet eucalypt forests”. Forest Ecology and Management 505 (2022), p. 119922. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119922.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
ABRS_2023	8	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Brodribb_2000	4	4	T. J. Brodribb and T. S. Feild. “Stem hydraulic supply is linked to leaf photosynthetic capacity: evidence from New Caledonian and Tasmanian rainforests”. Plant, Cell and Environment 23.12 (2000), pp. 1381-1388. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.2000.00647.x.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Kirkpatrick_2020	3	3	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_2015	3	3	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Rumman_2018	3	3	R. Rumman, O. K. Atkin, K. J. Bloomfield, and D. Eamus. “Variation in bulk-leaf 13C discrimination, leaf traits and wateruse efficiency-trait relationships along a continental-scale climate gradient in Australia”. Global Change Biology 24 (2018), pp. 1186-1200. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13911.
ABRS_1981	2	2	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Ilic_2000	1	2	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Lawes_2014	1	1	M. J. Lawes, S. J. Richardson, P. J. Clarke, J. J. Midgley, M. S. McGlone, and P. J. Bellingham. “Bark thickness does not explain the different susceptibility of Australian and New Zealand temperate rain forests to anthropogenic fire”. Journal of Biogeography 41.8 (2014), pp. 1467-1477. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12292.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.